On Saturday, 7 September 2019 at 21:19:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I have a slight disagreement with this. Too often the mess is created by programmers who sincerely believe they *are* doing the right thing. They're proud of it. Being able to recognize this unfortunately only comes via a lot of experience.
I agree with both of you. I've seen both the cases. And I even know programmers that are doing this by purpose: they write unreadable/unmaintainable code to become indispensable for the company.